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VALTER G. TILLOUV AND .JOI-IN L CLAPP, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CHARLES I. KANE AND ROBERT E. LESTER, BOTH OF NE`W YORK, N. Y.

e j SHUTTLE-MOTION Foe Looms.

SPECIFICATION forming pere erV Letters Patent No. 290,285, dated December 1e, 188e.

Application filed June 8,1881. Renewed August 27, 1883. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern.- l frame portion ofthe loom, having a curved 5o Be it known that we, VALTER G. TILLOU raceway, B, open both above and below, for and JOHN `W. CLAPP, both of the city and the shuttle C to work in, and divided at its county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticenter, leaving a space, a b, of sufficient width 5 cut, have invented a new and useful Improveto admit of the passage and shedding of the p ment in Shuttle-Motions for Looms, of which warp. 55 the following is a description, reference being D is a horizontal rotating shaft, arranged had to the accompanying drawings, forming beneath the table A and at a suitable dispart of this specication. tance in rear of the raceway B. This shaft ro This invention more particularly relates to may be extended to operate several looms, and

looms for weaving narrow ware, and in which is provided with a grooved cam, E-that is, 6o a raceway for the shuttle open both above and one foreach loom-for operating the shuttlei below is used. It has more especial reference to driving mechanism. It may also be fitted with such description of said looms as haveacurved gear for actuating the other working parts of 15 raceway, and in which the shuttle is propelled the loom. The cam E is arranged opposite by fingers carried by a curvilinearly-reciproand in rear of the shuttle-driver F, which has 65 cating shuttle driver, said fingers having a curvilinearly-reciprocating motion by means an independent motion in direction of their of a simple lever, G, directly connected with length for the purpose of causing them to ensaid driver, and having its center of motion,

2O gage with and disengage from the shuttle, to d, concentric with the raceway B. The vibratdrive the latter and to keep them clear from ing motion of this lever G to actuate the shut- 7o contactwith the warp when the shuttle is passtlc-driver is effected by a stud or roller, e, on .1' ng therethrough. it, arranged to gear with the grooved cam E.

The invention consists in a combination, This forms a very simple and direct means 25 with a curved raceway and curvilinearly-rewithin the narrow frame of the loom for opciprocating shuttle-driver, of a lever for actuerating the shuttle-driver. The fingers f f, 7 5

ating the latter, having its center of motion by which the shuttle-driver F is made to proconccntric with the raceway, and actuated by pel the shuttle C, are arranged one near either a rotating cam arranged in rear of the shuttleend of said driver, and are itted to have a 3o driver, duplicate finger operating levers sliding motion up and down through guides mounted on the lever whichreciprocates the 'g g in the driver, to provide for them being 8o shuttle-driver, and connected at their ends alternately drawn downward out of the shutwith the ngers of the shuttle-driver, and a tle below the warp during the travel of the stationary cam, with which the finger-operatportion of the shuttle with which they engage E 3 5 ing levers engage to produce the necessary risthrough the warp, and of their subsequent ening and falling action of the ngers relatively gagement againwith theshuttle. Thisusual and 8 5 with the shuttle. By this combination of de- 'necessary action of the fingers f f is produced vices a shuttle-driving mechanism is obtained as follows: Mounted upon thelever G, andhav- A which is not only simple, compact, and effecting their fulcrum at 7L 7L, are two independent L 4o ive, but admits of a high rate of speed being levers, H H, which are connected at their front l) given to the shuttle. Y or free ends with the ngers ff in any suitable 9o Figure 1 of the drawings represents a vertiway, to provide for elevating and depressing y cal section transversely to the raceway of a the latter. These leversH H, which should narrow-ware loom in part having my invenbe constructed or itted to accommodate their 4 5 tion applied; Fig. 2, a vertical section of the curvilinear action to the motion of the fingers,

same on the liner min Fig. l; Fig. 3, an inverted are alternately raised or lowered, accordingly 95 plan of like parts, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal as it is necessary to put the fingers in or out of elevation of the shuttle-driver detached. connection with the shuttle, by means of a sta- In said drawings, A indicates the table and tionary slotted cam, I, with which studs or rollers k k on said levers engage, and along which they travel as the lever G is vibratcd from its center of motion d, the slot s in said cam being suitably constructed to provide for the proper action of the fingers relatively to the shuttle.

A much higher velocity may be obtained for the shuttle by this combination of driving devices than is practicable under many other combinations for the same purpose, and great compactness with the most perfect freedom of action generally is secured.

Vhat We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the curved raccWay B and a shuttle-driver, F,Worl1ingtherein, and provided With vertically-movable fingers f, of the horizontal lever G, the camE, for operating said lever, the levers H, secured at one end to the lever G and connected at their other ends with the'ngersf. so as to move horizontally with the lever G and shuttle-driver F, and the stationary earn I, whereby a rising-andfalling motion is imparted to the levers H and ingers f, substantially as herein specified.

WALTER G. TILLO U. JOI-IN \V. CLAPP. Vitnesses:

A. C. WETMORE, JOHN A. RICHARDSON. 

